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ACM Off-Campus Study Programs

Designed with a strong liberal arts perspective, ACM offers programs around the world, providing students with an interdisciplinary educational experience, personal attention, independent projects, and diverse viewpoints and ways of learning.  Select a program below to learn more:

Flag Japan

Japan Study
Tokyo, Japan

Flag Mexico

Mexico Summer Program: Service Learning & Language Immersion
Mexico City, Mexico

Flag Tanzania

Tanzania: Ecology & Human Origins
Dar es Salaam & Tarangire field site, Tanzania

Flag United Kingdom

London & Florence: Arts in Context
London, England & Florence, Italy

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Chicago Programs

Chicago, Illinois

Newberry Seminar: Research in the Humanities
Chicago, Illinois
Oak Ridge Science Semester
Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Member colleges

  1. Beloit College
  2. Carleton College
  3. Coe College
  4. Colorado College
  5. Cornell College
  6. Grinnell College
  7. Knox College
  8. Lake Forest College
  9. Lawrence University
  10. Luther College
  11. Macalester College
  12. Monmouth College
  13. Ripon College
  14. St. Olaf College

Off-campus study

Caroyln Richardson The Chicago Arts Program was the most significant step I made between my on-campus college experience and my transition into the working world. In the six months I was in the program, I created relationships that resulted in my first full-time job in the music industry, recording and performing opportunities with some of industry's most respected musicians, and a self-examination that I was never urged to do in my college courses. I learned so much about art: who makes it and how they do it, but more importantly what motivates art. More than anything, I learned purpose in the Chicago Arts Program. The personalized curriculum that allows for self-expression is worth a lifetime of arts courses. I went to a great college and was unsure about spending a semester away from campus - but had I stayed, I do not think I would be as tenacious and successful as I am today. Thank you, ACM!

—Caroyln Richardson, Chicago Arts, Spring 2003

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Who we are

The Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) is a consortium of independent, liberal arts colleges in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Colorado.